{"id":30075,"date":"2025-12-01T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/leicesters-chosen-candidate-to-replace-marti-cifuentes-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:03:41","slug":"leicesters-chosen-candidate-to-replace-marti-cifuentes-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/leicesters-chosen-candidate-to-replace-marti-cifuentes-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester&#8217;s chosen candidate to replace Marti Cifuentes revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/leicesters-chosen-candidate-to-replace-marti-cifuentes-revealed\/#Leicester_replace_Marti_Cifuentes_with_Michael_Carrick\" >Leicester replace Marti Cifuentes with Michael Carrick<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/leicesters-chosen-candidate-to-replace-marti-cifuentes-revealed\/#Is_Michael_Carrick_the_man_to_save_Leicesters_season\" >Is Michael Carrick the man to save Leicester&#8217;s season?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Marti Sifuentes could be sacked by Leicester. (Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leicester have had a dismal return to the Championship so far, sitting 16th in the table after 18 games. Ten years after their historic Premier League win, the Foxes are just five points away from making the play-offs, but that feels like a long way off at the moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marti Sifuentes was tasked with getting Leicester back into the Premier League after last season&#8217;s relegation, but so far he has fallen far short of expectations. As a result, he is thought to be at risk of being sacked, and if he is, he would become the third player to be sacked at the King Power Stadium in just over a year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Sifuentes still being in charge, Leicester have already begun the search for a new manager and appear to have settled on favorite candidate Michael Carrick.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Leicester_replace_Marti_Cifuentes_with_Michael_Carrick\"><\/span>Leicester replace Marti Cifuentes with Michael Carrick<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Carrick looks on (Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to talkSPORT (via Foxes of Leicester), Carrick is the frontrunner to become Leicester manager if Sifuentes is sacked. The former Middlesbrough head coach, who was recently linked with a move to Wolves prior to Rob Edwards&#8217; appointment, is currently unemployed and could be ready to start as soon as possible, which would be an attractive prospect for the club&#8217;s hierarchy.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_Michael_Carrick_the_man_to_save_Leicesters_season\"><\/span>Is Michael Carrick the man to save Leicester&#8217;s season?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Carrick had an excellent spell at Middlesbrough before being sacked in June. He has led the Teesside club to victory in 46% of their matches and given the track record he has shown in the Championship over the past couple of years, he would be a very capable candidate for Leicester to appoint. For now, he&#8217;s just a candidate, with Cifuentes still at the helm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marti Sifuentes could be sacked by Leicester. (Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images) Leicester have had a dismal return to the Championship so far, sitting 16th in the table after 18 games. Ten years after their historic Premier League win, the Foxes are just five points away from making the play-offs, but that feels like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-30075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}